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Shipping a free look at my new X News Aggregator server to test out the load balancing. Find it @ news.fyniks.co
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ドラムも出来ました✨ Tripoで作ったキャラに Fable5.2 + Kimodo(UE 5.9 の AnimGenOffline)で動き生成 .wavから譜面生成はGemini 4 Carbon 譜面に合わせてUnity 上で演奏 譜面生成処理がドラムのどれを叩けばいいのかまでは判定してなかったのでGemini 4 Carbonで修正しました
Fable 5.2 で、曲に合わせた演奏モーションを付けられるようになりました 曲(mp3)からベースの音符を検出し Kimodo(UE 5.9 の AnimGenOffline)で動き生成 Unity 上で指先を弦の正しい位置に合わせる補正と、足の固定・体の揺れを加えています
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‼️ UPDATE: Cursor says the backdoored Claude Code extension in its marketplace started with one key exposed by its AI provider, Fireworks AI. The attacker used it to copy old coding-agent traces. Some still held users' credentials, unredacted. With those, it got into some of the online tools Cursor uses, reaching archived code, support emails and credentials users had sent to support. Then it planted tampered versions 2.1.312 and 2.1.313, which at most 5,000 users may have received. Cursor has moved all its AI processing off Fireworks and warns that uninstalling it alone may not be enough.
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BREAKING: US Congress is preparing to pass tighter AI chip export controls following the Nvidia, $NVDA, scandal, per FT. Details include: 1. Several bills are aiming to curb sales of sensitive chips outside of the US. 2. The bills will also give Congress the ability to review and potentially block sales already approved by the Trump Administration 3. Democrats and Republicans have both thrown support behind the bills It appears more regulation is on the way.
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BREAKING: Congress builds consensus to cut AI chip exports to China after Nvidia scandal
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JUST IN: New York ranks as the world’s most stressful city, per new survey
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黄仁勋用他的鸡巴戳破了 AI 泡沫
黄仁勋用他的鸡巴戳破了 AI 泡沫
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BREAKING: Elon Musk publicly questions the credibility of Nvidia's, $NVDA, board of directors amid the controversy surrounding Jensen Huang's departure as CEO. "This is the board making decisions about what used to be the most valuable company on Earth!?" Musk said. Nvidia's Board Members include: 1. Harvey Jones: Chairman, Square Wave Ventures 2. Stephen Neal: Former Chairman, Cooley LLP 3. Tench Coxe: Former Managing Director, Sutter Hill 4. John Dabiri: Professor, Caltech 5. Dawn Hudson: Former CMO, NFL 6. Melissa Lora: Former President, Taco Bell 7. Brooke Seawell: Partner, New Enterprise Associates 8. Aarti Shah: Former CIO, Eli Lilly 9. Mark Stevens: Managing Partner, S-Cubed Capital 10. Suzanne Nora Johnson: Former Vice Chair, Goldman Sachs A petition to reinstate Jensen Huang is currently underway.
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Man hacks video games to steal Bitcoin, then spends thousands and thousands of dollars on Uber Eats, which eventually led to his capture. You can’t even make this stuff up…
‼️ The FBI says it unmasked the alleged money man behind malware-laced video games through his Uber Eats gift cards. The eight games, including PirateFi and BlockBlasters, infected about 8,000 players and drained at least $220,000 from their crypto wallets, an FBI affidavit says. His Bitcoin bought 150+ gift cards on Bitrefill, Uber Eats among them. Uber traced those to one phone number, and Google cookies tied his Gmail to a university student email. Zyaire Wilkins of Florida is charged with conspiring to hack computers. Uber's records showed 500+ food deliveries worth over $9,000 to campus and his home.
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My bet is on most. Unless Nvidia gets the head of Foxconn or equivalent to take over.
Jensen drove supply chain brilliantly at Nvidia, but many of those deals were a handshake with Jensen, not a written contract. Without Jensen, at least some of those critical deals will be lost.
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said early findings on the FAA outage suggested a problem with contractor L3Harris’s work to update outdated technology at a remote site.
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Most people outside semiconductor circles don’t know how difficult it is to get a slot for say 3nm production line at TSMC for your chip. Everyone (Nvidia, AMD, Apple, Hyperscalers) wants it and is happy to pay premium. Jensen used to get his way around with charm
MUSK: JENSEN DROVE SUPPLY CHAIN BRILLIANTLY AT NVIDIA, BUT MANY OF THOSE DEALS WERE A HANDSHAKE WITH JENSEN, NOT A WRITTEN CONTRACT
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The struggle is real. I hope Nvidia’s board realizes that. How it relates to frontier, I don’t see Anthropic and OpenAI saving the day.
Deepseek is already training their new model on Huawei Ascend chips. Their old model among other Chinese models are already giving US frontier AI the fight of its life and they give most of that away for free. Nvidia is going to need all hands on deck to stay on top. With the Huang situation I don’t know if they can anymore.
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Silicon Valley was way too ahead of us
There are so many incredible movies that don’t get the attention they deserve. I’ll be sharing some hidden gems and unforgettable films worth watching. Drop your recommendations too. 🎬🍿
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On the Nvidia situation: Nvidia's board can still make things right. It has now been 48 hours since Jensen Huang resigned from his role as CEO, President, and board member of Nvidia. Meanwhile, a thorough investigation has not been completed, countless critical questions are unanswered, and one of the world's greatest CEOs was forced out before the full facts of the situation were established. In fact, the US Attorney General, the CIA, the DNI, and members of the House Intelligence Committee have also suggested that the current evidence remains inconclusive regarding whether Jensen Huang was involved in an affair with a Chinese spy. The reality is that Jensen Huang resigned in the heat of the moment and the board acted based on speculative information. We believe Nvidia's board, $NVDA, has a duty to shareholders to openly acknowledge that Jensen Huang could return to the company, pending a thorough investigation. What happens in a CEO's personal life should not automatically dictate his role in a company, particularly if an investigation fails to establish national security misconduct or other wrongdoing that warrants removal. The right move is to acknowledge that Jensen Huang is innocent until proven guilty. Nvidia's board must do this now. It is not too late.
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‼️ A MacBook Air owner in Japan says a $300 Anker dock was behind the laptop's slowdown, eating about 30% of its processor non-stop. The Anker Prime dock runs extra screens through DisplayLink. The Mac records its own screen, compresses it and sends it over USB, all on its own CPU. The owner also reports a memory leak of about 80MB an hour. DisplayLink says it fixed a macOS memory leak on 5 November. DisplayLink's forum has high-CPU complaints dating to 2016. In August, one user found its processes holding about 10GB of memory after 27 days. The owner says the maker ignores the reports.
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Google's Gemini 4 Hydrogen is completing benchmark tasks 18x faster than Claude Opus 5.5. Artificial Analysis measured: Gemini 4 Hydrogen (Medium): 1.4 min Gemini 4 Hydrogen (High): 3.8 min GPT-6 Sol: 23.3 min GPT-6 Astra: 24.1 min Claude Opus 5.5: 25.4 min Gemini 4 Carbon: 30.9 min
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🇺🇸 The fallout from America's FAA crisis is now spreading across international air travel, with the chaos expected to take DAYS to resolve. Today's disruption affected an estimated 11,000 flights and more than 1.5 MILLION passengers, leaving aircraft and crews stranded in the wrong locations. British and European travelers have been particularly hard hit, with transatlantic cancellations, missed connections and passengers facing overnight stays. The disruption has also rippled into Asia-Pacific routes, as airlines struggle to reposition aircraft, reorganize crews and clear mounting passenger backlogs. With Thanksgiving travel approaching, the pressure on America's aging aviation infrastructure could hardly come at a worse time. Writer: Mhedi
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Microsoft says it has restored services following a widespread outage that disrupted Outlook, Teams, Copilot and other Microsoft 365 products.
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Putting the Homeland Security Secretary as the point man, instead of Duffy, tells you all you need to know about what the cause was of the FAA outage.
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I have a particularly nasty case of cancer. When I was hospitalized again at my lowest point last year, I told Jensen. He immediately reached out to contacts at Stanford, who were able to cut through red tape, and get me into a clinical trial for which I've turned out to be a perfect fit. I think everyone can have their own views about recent events. But any claims that Jensen did not really care about his staff is simply inaccurate. I, personally, owe him more than I can express. I think the best tribute we can pay to Jensen's legacy is to drive NVIDIA's continued success and push the whole industry forward, by showing we've learned the lessons from years of working here. We will compare ourselves against Speed of Light. The mission will be the boss. And we will not be scared to take smart, bold risks and fail fast with ruthless intellectual honesty. But if there is one management story I remember the most, it's a particular Jensen grilling from my time in autonomous vehicles that stayed with me. Luckily I was not in the hot seat for this one. Team A didn't want to use Team B's framework, because they thought it was too slow. Jensen was surprised - it's just applying a bunch of optimized CUDA kernels in sequence, how could it be slow? So he asked the executive from team B to draw the entire data flow sequence from their framework on the whiteboard and highlight every memcpy. Sure enough, there were a bunch of unnecessary memcpy's surrounding each pipeline stage. Everyone in the room could see why it wasn't getting to SoL and a path to improve things. No arguing about fiefdoms or appeals to authority - the data got us all on the same page. The lesson was not (just) that unnecessary memory copying is bad. It's that executives should not be afraid to probe into details if something doesn't add up, and leaders need to be technical enough and honest enough to engage in real time and not turn every meeting into "I'll get back to you in a week." If that means counting memcpy's with a billionaire CEO, so be it. My best executive meetings at NVIDIA have been when I'm fully prepared to present every detail of my team's work, and my worst failures have come when I realized I couldn't go deep enough to really solve the problem. But the thing that gives me confidence is that Jensen was never the only one to live this philosophy. Anyone who has presented to an SVP at NVIDIA knows they are at risk for getting grilled on fundamental constraints and technical details. I have been part of amazing conversations with both recent and old timer leaders where we were able to get to the core of a problem in an hour rather than a month, because we had the right people in the room and were not afraid to go deeper. The company is filled with supremely talented people who have been trained for 3 decades to work at the highest level, and you can see it in what we produce every day. I'm so proud to be an NVIDIAn, and I can't wait to show off what we ship in the coming months and years.
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